Horrible, unpleasant, disrespectful… These are some of the epithets that the current candidate for the White House for the Republicans and former president of the United States Donald Trump has dedicated to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in recent years, especially since Harry and Meghan settled in California, in April 2020. Today, November 5, it is decided in the
United States elections if Donald Trump regains power and can carry out his threats. He has dedicated many of all kinds to the Sussexes. In case, Meghan and Harry have already bought a house in Portugal, a luxury villa in Comporta.
But Donald Trump’s dispute with the dukes already began when Harry and Meghan were still in the United Kingdom and has had several skirmishes, the last when the former president stated that
would expel Prince Harry from the United States if it were confirmed that he lied on his visa application, after admitting in his autobiography ‘Spare’ that he had used drugs in the past.
In statements to British extremist leader Nigel Farage last March, Trump assured that
I wouldn’t give Harry any preferential treatment. if he is re-elected to the White House this year.
Prince Harry is currently embroiled in a legal battle over his US visa after admitting he had used drugs. Under US law, this is a reason not to grant a visa. A month earlier he described the prince as a “disgrace” and as having “betrayed Queen” Elizabeth. He also dared to predict that Harry and Meghan’s marriage would end “badly.”
In line with the numerous insults that his father has directed at them, Eric Trump, the third son of the candidate and vice president of the Trump organization, recently declared, in an interview with the British network GBNews, that
Harry and Meghan were “two bad apples”. “I’m not a fan of Meghan, she hasn’t done things right from the beginning,” he explained.
“I think poor Harry has it by the nose,” and added: “If they have to be returned to the United Kingdom, it will have to be done.” Eric, like his father on several occasions, assured that
The British monarchy was “sacred”and that the Sussexes “feel like they are on a little island of their own.” And he bragged about the Trumps’ supposed privileged relationship with the British monarchy, just as his father has also done, when he boasted that his interview with the Queen, during her visit to the United Kingdom, lasted twice as long as planned.
Donald Trump, divisive and misogynist
The war was first between Meghan and Trump and began in 2016, before the presidential election, when she had not yet become a duchess. On a popular American “late night”, Meghan made her opinions on Trump and
He called it “divisive” and “misogynistic,” and added that “nobody likes those kinds of people.” Trump, of course, did not remain silent, although the former president did not respond directly to Meghan until three years later.
In June 2019, when the Sussexes had not yet left London and just before Trump’s official visit to the United Kingdom, the former president described Meghan as “disgusting” in statements to the British tabloid newspaper The Sun, although little He then justified himself by saying that “the fake news media” had made it up.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, in an image in Canada. /
In an interview with Piers Morgan, one of the British journalists who has made Meghan his target, Trump walked back his comment and said he thought she was “very nice” and that Harry was a “fantastic guy.”
But things didn’t stop there. A year later, Prince Harry was tricked into a “fake” phone interview by two Russian YouTubers posing as activist Greta Thunberg, so that the prince would divulge his opinion on key issues.
Speaking about Trump, the duke said that
The former president has “blood on his hands” for his climate policies, adding, as if speaking to Greta, that “he won’t want to have a discussion about climate change with you because you’re smarter than him.” Speaking about his family, he also added that he and Meghan were “away from most of it.” After the deception, Harry remained silent and doubts arose as to whether the interviewee was really him.
The United States will not pay for your security
But Trump kept shooting. Months later, he assured that the Sussexes “must pay!” the costs of their security, intervening in the controversy that broke out when Harry and Meghan were still in Canada and felt persecuted by the press. Personal protection is one of Harry’s workhorses.
When they moved to Los Angeles, the politician said in a tweet that
The United States would not pay to protect them. A representative for the couple denied that they intended to ask the US government to pay their security costs.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. /
In 2020, in the elections that gave victory to Biden, Meghan and Harry participated in a campaign to encourage voting, and she was immediately labeled as a Democrat. Meghan said: “We’re always told every election is crucial, but this one really is.”
In an unprecedented gesture for a member of royalty, since
placed him very close to politicsHarry said: “As we approach November, it is vital that we reject hate speech, misinformation and online negativity.” Trump responded days later: “I’m not a fan of Meghan. “I wish Harry the best of luck, he’s going to need it.”
Harry, abused
In the years since his presidency, Trump has attacked the Sussexes especially viciously. In a 2021 interview, the former president said he thought
Harry had been “horribly used”that his marriage “ruined his relationship with his family” and that he “had harmed the Queen.”
Later, speaking to journalist Piers Morgan again in 2022, Trump said that “Harry is being mistreated like no other person I’ve ever seen” and that Meghan would probably leave him “when she decides she likes another guy better.”
Speaking to Nigel Farage last year, Trump weighed in on the prince being invited to the coronation of King Charles III: “To be honest, I was surprised that Harry was invited. “She said some terrible things… her book was just horrible to me,” adding that Meghan had been “very disrespectful” to the Queen.
